Judge denies Secretary of State’s request to correct primary vote count before General Election

by Kate Shunney

Morgan County Circuit Judge Debra McLaughlin on Friday denied a petition from the West Virginia Secretary of State asking her to decertify the results of the May primary election so that a corrected vote total could be certified as the official results.

The Secretary of State’s office oversees state elections.

The November 4 hearing came on the heels of an October investigation into the location of 357 local ballots that were not…